The Mayor of London Boris Johnson is launching a report highlighting the importance of giving young people high quality careers advice when they leave school.
The London Ambitions report calls for “impartial, independent and personalised careers education” in both primary and secondary school. Children would get at least 100 hours of careers information, from one-to-one advice, to work experience.
Report author, Deirdre Hughes, said: “There is a clear moral, social and economic purpose to improving careers provision for all young Londoners. Support for young people has stalled and most are getting a raw deal. It is not enough to just to pay lip service to careers support for them. More young people must be given the chance to gain more experiences of the world of work and be inspired to see possibilities and goals that are worthwhile and relevant to them.”
Russell Hobby, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: “There is widespread agreement that there’s a real benefit in talking to children at an early age about the jobs they might do when they’re grown up and how important their primary school learning really is in terms of future opportunities. Careers advice shouldn’t have to wait until children get to secondary school.”
